Michael Dante DiMartino First Draft with Sarah Enni

Michael Dante DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender and author of Rebel Genius and its sequel, Warrior Genius, on being obsessed with 50s art, how Avatar was pitched perfectly wrong, writing art as magic, and starting to write by hand.
 
Michael Dante DiMartino Show Notes
The 2018 First Draft calendar
Kirsten Hubbard
William S. Burroughs
Beat poetry
Garfield (comic)
Bloom County (comic)
Abstract expressionism
Jackson Pollock
Mark Rothko
Willem de Kooning
Brian Konietzko, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender
King of the Hill (TV show)
Beavis and Butthead (TV show)
Atomic Love
Family Guy (TV show)
Mission Hill (TV show)
Invader Zim (TV show)
Spongebob Squarepants (TV show)
Hayao Miyazaki
The Hero with 10,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell
Bill Moyer's video series, discussing The Hero’s Journey with Joseph Campbell
G.I. Joe (animated TV show)
Leigh Bardugo (hear her First Draft episodes here and here)
Nickelodeon Animation podcast featuring Michael and Brian
Story by Robert McKee
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
"An Oral History of the Funniest Podcast Ever," Daily Beast article featuring the quote from Scott Aukerman
Bottle Episode (what we called "box episodes")
The Fly episode of Breaking Bad
William James Royce
The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne
The Story Grid Podcast